"In Science the authority embodied in the opinion of thousands is not worth a spark of reason in one man." - Galileo Galilei

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Jumping on Insulin

Apparently, the "paradoxical frog" secretes a substance which promotes insulin release. The frog is so named because it actually shrinks as it gets older, from a 27mm tadpole to 4mm as an adult. Now we have a new reason to call it "paradoxical": it may allow doctors to treat Type II diabetes by exacerbating the key symptoms of the disease (elevated insulin and insulin resistance).